Trail reaction Brown v Board

 

Reflections on School Segregation Arguments: A Legal and Human Perspective

I was able to listen to arguments in favor and against school segregation. The main two arguments that I picked up on was in favor of the segregation argument they pointed out the fact that the court made past rulings on things that had similar precedent to segregation. So it would make no sense for the court to just completely backtrack everything and just overturn all their past rulings without going back and changing previous rulings.

But then the counter argument was that segregation favored people over others and that was against the Constitution stating that all men are created equal doesn't apply when there is segregation. And the fact that the states put more funding in white schools and black schools doesn't make it equal. And they also argued that times change and courts have overturned rulings before just because they have made rulings that have been more in favor of segregation doesn't mean they have to keep the ruling.

Both sides had good arguments and I really thought it was interesting how they were able to tie in legal arguments but also the human argument of things. Because if there are too many loopholes to a law then the court usually overturns it. And the court fault that there were too many loopholes in the current law so they overturned it in real life and the court said that segregation was unconstitutional. It was a landmark decision and it went against all previous rulings that the court made that have been more friendly to segregation in the past.

I really enjoyed listening to both arguments and how both teams were able to make different style arguments towards certain aspects of the case. And how they added the human side and how they pointed out the loopholes in the laws saying there were too many so the court should overturn it. I just thought it was fantastic and I was really intrigued when I listened to it.